Pink Floyd had one of the great resurrection stories in classic rock. Founder, guitarist, and chief songwriter Syd Barrett’s creative genius put the band on the map. His deteriorating mental health led his bandmates to move on without him. Barrett crashed Pink Floyd’s recording sessions for Wish You Were Here, but that happened years after he unexpectedly showed up at the studio while his former band made another record.
Syd Barrett crashed Pink Floyd’s sessions for ‘Atom Heart Mother’
Barrett enjoyed the benefits of Pink Floyd’s success for roughly a year before the band moved on without him. The Mapcap received royalty checks for his early contributions but had nothing to do with Floyd’s most successful era. Or almost nothing to do with their commercial peak. Barrett showed up to the studio as Pink Floyd recorded “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” the band’s epic...
Syd Barrett crashed Pink Floyd’s sessions for ‘Atom Heart Mother’
Barrett enjoyed the benefits of Pink Floyd’s success for roughly a year before the band moved on without him. The Mapcap received royalty checks for his early contributions but had nothing to do with Floyd’s most successful era. Or almost nothing to do with their commercial peak. Barrett showed up to the studio as Pink Floyd recorded “Shine on You Crazy Diamond,” the band’s epic...
- 8/1/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
David Gilmour and Roger Waters helped guide Pink Floyd to classic rock superstardom, but they rarely agreed on anything. They settled their conflict over “Comfortably Numb” by combining their ideas, which might have been their last compromise as the group began splintering around that time. Years before making that song, though, Waters and Gilmour hated the results of the epic Pink Floyd song “Atom Heart Mother.”
David Gilmour and Roger Waters hated the Pink Floyd song ‘Atom Heart Mother’
When Pink Floyd lost the creative genius of Syd Barrett (possibly to a combination of an existing mental condition and heavy use of psychoactive drugs), the band struggled to find its way.
They stayed on the psychedelic path (A Saucerful of Secrets). They cranked out a smorgasbord of a film soundtrack (More). And Floyd released a double album that included an LP’s worth of songs the four members played and...
David Gilmour and Roger Waters hated the Pink Floyd song ‘Atom Heart Mother’
When Pink Floyd lost the creative genius of Syd Barrett (possibly to a combination of an existing mental condition and heavy use of psychoactive drugs), the band struggled to find its way.
They stayed on the psychedelic path (A Saucerful of Secrets). They cranked out a smorgasbord of a film soundtrack (More). And Floyd released a double album that included an LP’s worth of songs the four members played and...
- 7/22/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Trixi (1971).“When I first saw Steve’s films, I actually very often had to leave the cinema,” Laura Mulvey once recalled. Dwoskin’s shorts and early features, shown in alternative venues around London in the late 1960s and early ’70s, tended to show a woman alone in a room, often naked, responding to the camera, sometimes seducing it: Alone (1964), Soliloquy (1964/7), Take Me (1969), Moment (1969), and Girl (1971)... At the time she saw them, Mulvey was working on what became her famous essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” published in 1975. Having been repelled at first, she began to find that Dwoskin’s films “opened a completely new perspective for me on cinematic voyeurism.” The first draft included a section discussing them, particularly the half-hour Trixi (1971), an “overtly ‘voyeuristic’ film” in which the seduction is consummated. In Mulvey’s words, Dwoskin’s handheld camera facilitated his “intimate involvement as an equal participant in the erotic drama,...
- 6/16/2022
- MUBI
Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For daily updates follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSLuther Price's Sodom (1989)Experimental filmmaker Luther Price, best known for his reappropriation of found footage into vivid, often graphic and controversial painted images, has died. A number of available films, as well as a Q&a with Price, can be found here.Kirill Serebrennikov is set to direct a limited series based on the life of Andrei Tarkovsky. Due to the impact of the ongoing health crisis, the dates for next year's Oscars and BAFTA ceremonies have been pushed to April of 2021. Recommended VIEWINGThe official trailer for House of Hummingbird, Kim Bora's portrait of youth in 1990's Korea. Read our interview with Kim here.For GQ, martial artist Scott Adkins thoroughly breaks down fight scenes from movies like Ip Man, The Bourne Supremacy, and Rush Hour.A new short by David Lynch, The Story of a Small Bug,...
- 6/17/2020
- MUBI
Film 2016 | Kinoteka
Electronic music in film is key at this event, and if your knowledge of the subject extends little beyond that Daft Punk cameo in Tron: Legacy, it’s a chance to brush up on a history that goes right back to the mid-1930s. Sunday brunch screenings this month include key examples, such as Bride Of Frankenstein and Hitchcock classics Spellbound and The Birds (next month: John Carpenter), and theremin queen Lydia Kavina gives a concert – performing her music for Tim Burton movies such as Mars Attacks! – and introduction to the instrument at St George’s Bristol. Other highlights include a screening of Suede’s new film Night Thoughts accompanied by a Q&A, maverick composer and one-time Pink Floyd collaborator Ron Geesin in conversation, 20s Ukrainian silent film Arsenal with a live score, and a new Frank Zappa concert film.
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Electronic music in film is key at this event, and if your knowledge of the subject extends little beyond that Daft Punk cameo in Tron: Legacy, it’s a chance to brush up on a history that goes right back to the mid-1930s. Sunday brunch screenings this month include key examples, such as Bride Of Frankenstein and Hitchcock classics Spellbound and The Birds (next month: John Carpenter), and theremin queen Lydia Kavina gives a concert – performing her music for Tim Burton movies such as Mars Attacks! – and introduction to the instrument at St George’s Bristol. Other highlights include a screening of Suede’s new film Night Thoughts accompanied by a Q&A, maverick composer and one-time Pink Floyd collaborator Ron Geesin in conversation, 20s Ukrainian silent film Arsenal with a live score, and a new Frank Zappa concert film.
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- 4/1/2016
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
From from the British Pathé newsreel archive, Jon Savage unearths footage of the hip young band who rode the trad jazz wave in 1962, inspired by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
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This is a charming period piece, from March 1962. The colour makes it seem at once vivid and time-locked. It shows the travelling arrangements and a performance of a young, Dixieland jazz group called the Original Downtown Syncopators – who featured as pianist the future polymath Ron Geesin, best known for his collaboration with Roger Waters on The Body film soundtrack and with Pink Floyd on the Atom Heart Mother suite.
That would occur nearly a decade later. In early 1962, the Original Downtown Syncopators were a young and enthusiastic outfit riding the trad wave with a little more authenticity than some of their peers. As the clip shows, they took their cues from the source,...
Reading this on mobile? Watch clip here
This is a charming period piece, from March 1962. The colour makes it seem at once vivid and time-locked. It shows the travelling arrangements and a performance of a young, Dixieland jazz group called the Original Downtown Syncopators – who featured as pianist the future polymath Ron Geesin, best known for his collaboration with Roger Waters on The Body film soundtrack and with Pink Floyd on the Atom Heart Mother suite.
That would occur nearly a decade later. In early 1962, the Original Downtown Syncopators were a young and enthusiastic outfit riding the trad wave with a little more authenticity than some of their peers. As the clip shows, they took their cues from the source,...
- 10/4/2012
- by Jon Savage
- The Guardian - Film News
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